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Let me add, that having made divers Tryals with that Blew substance, which in Painters shops is call'd Litmase, we have sometimes taken Pleasure to observe, that being dissolv'd in a due proportion of fair Water, the Solution either oppos'd to the Light, or dropp'd upon White paper, did appear of a deep Colour betwixt Crimson and Purple; and yet that being spread very thin on the Paper and suffer'd to dry on there, the Paper was wont to appear Stain'd of a Fine Blew.
"You have seen Sunshine and rain at one: her smiles and tears Were like a better day: Those happy smiles That played on her ripe lip seemed not to know What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence, As pearls from diamonds dropp'd." Lis Oubreto de ROUMANILLE. Avignon. 1860. 12mo. T. AUBANEL. La Miougrano Entreduberto. Avec Traduction littérale en regard. Avignon: J. Roumanille. 1860. 12mo.
Come, quick: we shall have many miles to go to-night." "He comes Yet careless what he brings; his one concern Is to conduct it to the destined inn; And having dropp'd the expected bag, pass on To him indifferent whether grief or joy." COWPER: Description of the Postman. The pale gentleman entered Mr.
I need not toil beyond my pow'r, Yet never waste one precious hour. "But in a careless, idle frame, I gazed about on what was made: And idle hands will gather shame, And wand'ring eyes confuse the head: I dropp'd my hoe and pruning-knife, To view the beauties of my wife.
"Well to begin, there's the gentlefolk that came this afternoon with their own carriage and heathenish French servant: a cranky old grandee and a daughter with more airs than a peacock: Sir Something- or-other Killigew Lord bless the boy!" For I had dropp'd the mug and split the hot sack all about the straw, where it trickled away with a fragrance reproachfully delicious.
At the sound of my step on the threshold she turn'd with a short cry a cry the like of which I have never heard, so full was it of choking joy. The glass dropp'd to the floor and was shatter'd. In a second her arms were about me, and so she hung on my neck, sobbing and laughing together. "'Twas true 'twas true!
I bent my knees, and, leaving my hold of the rock, sprang forward out, over the sea. I saw it twinkle, fathoms below. My right hand touch'd grasp'd the rope: then my left, as I swung far out upon it. I slipp'd an inch three inches then held, swaying wildly. My foot was in the noose. I heard a shout above: and, as I dropp'd to a sitting posture, the rope began to rise. "Quick!
"Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow Through Eden took their solitary way; "
He rose, and with a cold and gentle grasp He took her hand; a moment o'er his face A tablet of unutterable thoughts Was traced, and then it faded as it came; He dropp'd the hand he held, and with slow steps Return'd, but not as bidding her adieu, For they did part with mutual smiles: he pass'd From out the massy gate of that old Hall, And mounting on his steed he went his way, And ne'er repassed that hoary threshold more."
And yet not for all is it decreed to attain the neighborhood of the three-score and ten years the span of life. I am to speak of one who died young. Very awkward was his childhood but most fragile and sensitive! So delicate a nature may exist in a rough, unnoticed plant! Let the boy rest; he was not beautiful, and dropp'd away betimes.
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